Ocean Current

When surface currents meet continents they ___?

• Stop moving

• Are deflected (change paths)

• Continue in the direction they were going

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The warm, strong current off the coast of Florida is the 

• Gulf Stream

• California Current

• North Equatorial Current

• Brazil Current

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Ocean currents move energy in the form of

• Salt

• Water

• Heat

• Oxygen

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Ocean currents bring warm water from the equator towards Earth's

• Southern Hemisphere

• Continents

• Equator

• Poles

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What type of currents are potentially dangerous to swimmers, because they rapidly carry water offshore?

• Surface Currents

• Longshore Currents

• Deep Currents

• Rip Currents

What type of currents are potentially dangerous to swimmers, because they rapidly carry water offshore quickly?

• Surface Currents

• Longshore Currents

• Deep Currents

• Rip Currents

A large rotating ocean current is called a:

• tsunami

• gyre

• wave

• swell

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

______ causes deep ocean currents

• The Coriolis Effect

• gravity

• wind

• density differences

Gyres in the southern hemisphere are surface currents that turn _________ due to the Coriolis Effect.

• clockwise

• counterclockwise

• toward the right

• toward the bottom of the ocean

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Warm ocean currents generally come from

• The North Pole

• The South Pole

• The Equator

• Both A and B

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6